2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (878+ words) Mayor Mike Johnston's campaign to curb homelessness has cost the city an estimated $20 million more than previously reported, Denver's auditor concluded. The audit determined that the mayor's initiative was poorly planned, with underreported expenses, no monitoring plan, inadequate "equity" considerations…...

9+ hour, 36+ min ago  (836+ words) Years ago, I interviewed a Canadian health-care broker whose job was helping his countrymen escape their own failing system. When their "free" health care turned into "free to wait until you die," he'd save his clients by routing them to…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (394+ words) When Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote "The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws," he wasn't wrong.He was referring to a political process sometimes ill-equipped to deal with complex issues that require subject-matter knowledge and a deliberative process....

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (711+ words) A packed marathon hearing at the state Capitol in Colorado highlighted the sharp divide between two competing approaches to the effects of data centers, one of America's fastest-growing technology sectors. Data centers are the physical facilities that host the servers,…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (236+ words) The environmental group Conservation Colorado has introduced four ballot measures it says are in response to an initiative that aims to enshrine Colorado businesses" and consumers" right to purchase and sell natural gas in the state"s Constitution. Filed with…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (469+ words) A consortium of universities filed a federal lawsuit Monday, alleging the Trump administration's plan to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research is unlawful retaliation against Colorado. The group also argued that the move violates federal law. The University Corporation…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (517+ words) Three of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's top political appointees have been named in a lawsuit alleging retaliation for spotlighting concerns over the city's Park Hill Golf Course land swap and its decision to vote down an airport lease with Key…...

4+ day, 17+ min ago  (535+ words) A newly qualified ballot measure would ask Colorado voters to decide whether to prohibit gender-affirming surgeries for minors and bar public funding or insurance coverage for procedures that alter biological sex characteristics. The measure would bar health care professionals from…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (338+ words) Recently, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission voted to ban the commercial sale of fur and reject CPW's proposed daily bag limits of 15 per day per person (450 per person per month!!) for harvesting 17 furbearer species. The outcry reported in…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (678+ words) Last winter, one of the older adults we serve at Silver Key shared something that has stayed with me. She begun turning her heat down at night " not because she wanted to, but because she was worried about her electric…...